Wheeler's Graded Readers: A third readerW. H. Wheeler & Company, 1904 |
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... horse and ride after her . She has not gone far . If you overtake her , tell her we should like to have her stay with us the next time that she comes this way . Then ask her to grant you three wishes . " The rich man thought it was a ...
... horse and ride after her . She has not gone far . If you overtake her , tell her we should like to have her stay with us the next time that she comes this way . Then ask her to grant you three wishes . " The rich man thought it was a ...
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... horse's neck . The horse began to caper and dance . He struck the horse , and said , " Be quiet , Bess ! " But the horse pranced and reared till she nearly threw him off . At last he became angry and cried out , “ Bess , what do you ...
... horse's neck . The horse began to caper and dance . He struck the horse , and said , " Be quiet , Bess ! " But the horse pranced and reared till she nearly threw him off . At last he became angry and cried out , “ Bess , what do you ...
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Gail Calmerton, William Henry Wheeler. mouth when the horse did fall and break her neck . She lay there dead , and he saw that he had lost his first wish and a good horse besides . " Well , " said he , " I still have two wishes left . It ...
Gail Calmerton, William Henry Wheeler. mouth when the horse did fall and break her neck . She lay there dead , and he saw that he had lost his first wish and a good horse besides . " Well , " said he , " I still have two wishes left . It ...
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... horses of the sun myself . " I shall go to my mother now , and ask her how much longer I must wait . " Phaëthon told his mother what his companions had said , and she answered : " Go , my child , and ask Great Apollo whether you are his ...
... horses of the sun myself . " I shall go to my mother now , and ask her how much longer I must wait . " Phaëthon told his mother what his companions had said , and she answered : " Go , my child , and ask Great Apollo whether you are his ...
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... horses are so fiery that they breathe fire through their nostrils . I am the only one who can drive the chariot of the sun safely through the heavens . I beg of you , choose more wisely . Ask the most precious thing on earth or in the ...
... horses are so fiery that they breathe fire through their nostrils . I am the only one who can drive the chariot of the sun safely through the heavens . I beg of you , choose more wisely . Ask the most precious thing on earth or in the ...
Términos y frases comunes
AESOP'S FABLES Alice ALICE CARY Androclus Apollo Arachne Beastland beautiful Benjy bird Blunder Blynken brown butterflies Butterfly-blue called chimney chirped Christmas cried dear door eyes fairy father fell flew flowers glad Grace Darling happy hear heard horses jumped Kitty knew Land of Thus-and-So laughed Lewis Carroll little boy little brook little girl little Lulu lived looked Louisa Louisa May Alcott Marion morning mother mountain mouse never nice night once Phaethon Phoebe Cary piper play poor pretty queen rich Rosa Bonheur Rose sailed sailors Samuel Francis Smith shoes sing Sir Edwin Landseer sister skip sleep soon spider stood stories sunbeam supper tell things thought three wishes Tilly tired told trees water babies Wind wings Wishing Gate woman wonderful
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Página 209 - Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song! Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong! Our fathers...
Página 208 - My native country, thee, Land of the noble, free. Thy name I love ; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills: My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Página 187 - Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers; Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, — Followed the piper for their lives.
Página 47 - O well for the fisherman's boy That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!
Página 143 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn : He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Página 272 - twas a dream they'd dreamed Of sailing that beautiful sea But I shall name you the fishermen three : Wynken, Blynken, And Nod. Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes, And Nod is a little head, And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies Is a wee one's trundle-bed. So shut your eyes while mother sings Of wonderful sights that be, And you shall see the beautiful things As you rock in the misty sea, Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three: Wynken, Blynken, And Nod.
Página 220 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Página 242 - In his bed at night. Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men ; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather!
Página 271 - That live in this beautiful sea; Nets of silver and gold have we!" Said Wynken, Blynken, And Nod. The old moon laughed and sang a song, As they rocked in the wooden shoe, And the wind that sped them all night long Ruffled the waves of dew. The little stars were the herring fish That lived in that beautiful sea. "Now cast your nets wherever you wish; Never afeard are we;" So cried the stars to the fishermen three: Wynken, Blynken, And Nod.
Página 155 - A fair little girl sat under a tree, Sewing as long as her eyes could see ; Then smoothed her work and folded it right, And said, " Dear work, good night, good night!